Education
BFA, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Teaching
Current Adjunct Professor for CNM in the Fine Arts Department and Instructor for individualized Art Workshops and Online Classes.
Other positions have included The University of New Mexico Art Department, UNM's Continuing Education Program, Harwood Art Center, The New Mexico Art League, The New Mexico Cancer Center, The Albuquerque Museum, OASIS, and more.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
SHELTERED, Jonathan Abrams MD Art Gallery (a satellite of the UNM Art Museum), Albuquerque, NM
To read a review of the show from The Albuquerque Journal, click here.
2018
ORDINARY MAGIC, Mixed media paintings and photographic montages by Rachel Popowcer, OASIS Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2015
Elemental: New Work by Rachel Popowcer - Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
To read a review of the show from The Albuquerque Journal, click here.
2012
Rachel Popowcer, Paintings and Fine Art Prints - Bright Rain Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2009
Small Pieces - Mariposa Upstairs Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2008
Glimmer: Paintings by Rachel Popowcer, Artspace 116, Albuquerque, NM
2006
Counting Days - Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2005
Collective - Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2004
SPIN - Box Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003
Rachel Eve Popowcer - Valentine Fine Art, Livingston, Montana
2002
Rachel Eve Popowcer - Port Jackson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
2000
Durations - The Harwood Arts Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1999
Interior Balance - John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/Events
2024
Two-Person Show with Helen Cozza, Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (upcoming in Nov/Dec)
Shared Futures ArtScience Collaborative 2024 Fellows Gallery Opening, Explora Science Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Taos Abstract Artist Collective Spring Exhibition, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM
2023
Heliotropism : Turning Toward the Light, Lapis Room Gallery, Old Town, ABQ, NM
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour, Sandia Heights, NM
Little House Benefit for OffCenter Community Arts Project and Lapis Room Gallery paintings (with Thomas Christopher Haag, Reyes Padilla, and Abdiel Beltrán), Fusion Theater Company, Albuquerque, NM
2022
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour, Sandia Heights, NM
2020
The Resilience Project, 516 Arts, Museum From Home.
ART practice/MOTHER practice; ALONE/TOGETHER, A writing and performance project in conjunction with the NMSU University Art Museum, Labor: Motherhood and Art in 2020 exhibition.
A PATH DESCRIBED BY A BODY, Casa Otro Gallery, Las Cruces, NM, co-curated by artists Sarah Irvin (Artist Parent Index) and Kaylan Buteyn (Artist/Mother Podcast). The show is in conjunction with NMSU University Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition: Labor: Motherhood And Art In 2020 (co-curated by Marisa Sage and Laurel Nakadate). To read the review of these shows, click here.
2019
PROXIMITY, 5G North Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
BIOLOGIQUE, The New Mexico Art League Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2018
FEELERS with Rachel Popowcer, Lea Anderson, and Peter Voshefski, The Historic KiMo Theatre Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. To read a review of the show from The Albuquerque Journal, click here.
Technically Speaking, CNM Faculty Show, 5G Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
WeAreThisCity, Factory on 5th Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
12 x 12, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (also 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
2017
Home, The S(and) Artist Collective, The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (October)
Tondo, The S(and) Artist Collective, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
POTLUCK, AC2 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Inspiration 101, Gallery With a Cause, New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM
2016
Prelude, The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2015
Miniatures & More, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM
Freedom and Constraint: Fused Glass by Lisa Chernoff and Paintings by Rachel Popowcer and Raul Dorn, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
S(and): An Introduction, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
www.abqjournal.com/589310/entertainment/14-female-abq-artists-in-exhibit.html
2014
MAS Attack 6, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
MAS Attack 5, Creative Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
Mixed Bag Syndicate, Factory on 5th, 5G Main Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2013
ALLUVIAL - Invitational exhibition, Albuquerque Open Space, Albuquerque, NM
Invitational exhibition - The Art Salon at Inspire, Albuquerque, NM
2012
MELANGE - three person painting exhibition, Bright Rain Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2011
Miniatures and More, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
18 Days, presented by The New Mexico Committe for Women in the Arts & The Center for Contemporary Arts, Munoz Waxman Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010
Drawn to Painting, AC2 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2007
New Work, New Space, Ellis West Gallery, Durango, CO
2006
100% Centennial Exhibition, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
Tzedakah: The Art of Giving, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Pittsburgh Alumni, Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2005
Weave, Contemporary Albuquerque Virtual Gallery, with Suzanne Sbarge
Nina Bean Memorial Foundation Invitational Art Exhibition and Silent Auction, Albuquerque, NM
2004
an ECLECTIC group, Katrina Lasko Gallery, Bernalillo, New Mexico
Abstract International, Valentine Fine Art, Bozeman, Montana
2003
Nina Bean Memorial Foundation Art Invitational and Silent Auction, Albuquerque, NM
Inedible Edibles, Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2002
December Invitational - Nuart Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fresh Paint - Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wood you please? - Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
NOW, Fort 105 Studios, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2001
Rachel Eve Popowcer and Jann Rowley - Port Jackson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
Abstraction 9 - invitational exhibition, Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2000
Matrixarts International 2000: Women Consuming, Women Consumed Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California, juried exhibition
REVIEWS
2020
Geoffrey, Daisy, “Uncharted: Rachel Popowcer”, Southwest Contemporary, May 6.
2019
Pulkka, Wesley, “Feast for the eyes”, The Albuquerque Sunday Journal, July 21.
2018
Pulkka, Wesley, “Natural talent on display at Kimo”, The Albuquerque Sunday Journal, May 27.
2015
Pulkka, Wesley, “Review: Compositions reveal landscape’s geological record in narrative form as if the land tells its legend out loud”, The Albuquerque Sunday Journal, October 11.
2015
Pulkka, Wesley, “Fourteen female ABQ artists in multi-media installation”, The Albuquerque Sunday Journal, May 24.
2008
Pulkka, Wesley, "Painter has audience stop, think.", The Albuquerque Sunday Journal, December 21, pg. F5.
2008
Pulkka, Wesley, "Visual Art: Despite difficult economics, cultural wealth shines through", The Albuquerque Sunday Journal, December 28, pg. F3.
2008
Coyle, Pamela, "Light, Space and Freedom Draw Artists to Albuquerque", IMAGES of Albuquerque Magazine, Culture Section, June 4th.
2006
Shaw, Kurt, "Gallery rounds up Pittsburgh alumni", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Sunday Edition, September 17.
2005
Pulkka, Wesley, "Monoprints, Abstracts on Display", The Albuquerque Journal, Sunday Edition, April 24th, pg. F5.
2002
Cline, Lynn, "BALANCING ACT, Rachel Popowcer's Technique", Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican, April 26, pgs. 18-19.
2001
Garriott-Stejskal, Richard, "Touchy, feely, smelly art at the Harwood", Crosswinds Weekly, October 18-25, pg. 15.
2001
Pulkka, Wesley, "Dartmouth show a fine overview of abstract evolution", The Albuquerque Sunday Journal, April 15, pg. F5.
2000
Pulkka, Wesley, "Alternative Energies", The Albuquerque Journal, October 20, no. 294, West Side Edition, pg. 8.
1999
Allen, Steven Robert, "Art vs. Commerce", Albuquerque Weekly Alibi, vol. 8, no. 40, October 7-13, pg. 23.
1999
DellaFlora, Anthony, "Window displays dress up Downtown area", The Albuquerque Journal, September 17, no. 260, Venue, pg. E10.
1999
Mobley-Martinez, T.D., "Bold, expressive art rolls through original sampling in three waves", The Albuquerque Tribune, January 29, pg. C6.
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Taos Abstract Artist Collective Spring 2024 Exhibition Catalog, Taos, NM
2005
Garcia, Nasario, "Albuquerque, Feliz Cumpleanos, Three Centuries to Remember", La Herencia Publications, Santa Fe, NM, p. 81.
2003
Southwest Art Magazine, September, pg. 84.
2003
Sources & Design magazine, January/February 2003, pg. 68.
2001
Cimarron Review, Winter Edition, Issue 134, cover and back issue art.
1999
Interior Balance Exhibition Catalog, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1999
Young Voices, New Worlds: selected works from the Magnifico Arts Workshops for Community Center Youth Spring 1999 and 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1998
Parenting New Mexico, "Art, Music and Dance for Children", August/September Vol. IV, No.VII, pgs. 4-8.
COLLECTIONS
UNM Hospital, North Tower, Albuquerque, NM (Public Art Purchase to be installed)
Los Padillas Community Center, Albuquerque, NM (Public Art Purchase)
UNM Taos, STEM (ScienceTechnologyEngineeringMath) Building, Taos, NM (Public Art Purchase)
UNM Main Campus, McKinnon Center for Management at the Anderson School of Business, Albuquerque, NM (Public Art Purchase)
Arjo Wiggins Paper Company, South Hadley, Massachusetts
New Mexico Bank and Trust
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Red Rock Resort and Spa, Las Vegas, NV
Numerous private collections in the United States and Europe.